Nepenthes mirabilis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by Thibaud Aronson — fig. c Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 40525756

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by ꦥꦤ꧀ꦗꦶꦒꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦄꦏ꧀ꦧꦂ — fig. d ꦥꦤ꧀ꦗꦶꦒꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦄꦏ꧀ꦧꦂ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81770832

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by J Mark Earlam — fig. e J Mark Earlam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 67478738

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by Ryan McMinds — fig. f Ryan McMinds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28471543

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by Jesse de Vries — fig. g Jesse de Vries, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187467753

Nepenthes mirabilis, photographed by coenobita — fig. h coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17573381

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Native distribution of Nepenthes mirabilis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Borneo	BOR	ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia	CBD
Jawa	JAW
Laos	LAO
Lesser Sunda Is.	LSI
Malaya	MLY
Maluku	MOL
Myanmar	MYA
New Guinea	NWG
Philippines	PHI
Sulawesi	SUL
Sumatera	SUM
Thailand	THA
Vietnam	VIE
China Southeast	CHS	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan	CHH
Queensland	QLD	AUSTRALASIA
Caroline Is.	CRL	PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 42 in flower of 137 examined

40%

21%

13%

43%

83%

38%

29%

30%

Proportion of examined Nepenthes mirabilis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	12	30	40%	25% to 58%
Feb	4	19	21%	9% to 43%
Mar	2	15	13%	4% to 38%
Apr	0	10	0%	0% to 28%
May	3	7	43%	16% to 75%
Jun	1	2	too few examined
Jul	5	6	83%	44% to 97%
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	1	3	too few examined
Oct	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Nov	5	17	29%	13% to 53%
Dec	6	20	30%	15% to 52%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Nepenthes mirabilis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 42 of 137 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,203 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	12.2 °C	22.3 °C	25.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	27.6 °C	30.3 °C	33.0 °C
Annual rainfall	1,715 mm	2,588 mm	4,556 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	28 mm	189 mm	716 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,203 research-grade observations of Nepenthes mirabilis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Nepenthes albolineata F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes alicae F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes armbrustae F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes bernaysii F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes cholmondeleyi F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes echinostoma Hook.f.
Nepenthes fimbriata Blume
Nepenthes fimbriata var. leptostachya Blume
Nepenthes garrawayae F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes jardinei F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes kennedyana F.Muell.
Nepenthes macrostachya Blume
Nepenthes moluccensis Oken
Nepenthes moorei F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes obrieniana Linden & Rodigas
Nepenthes pascoensis F.M.Bailey
Nepenthes phyllamphora Willd.
Nepenthes phyllamphora var. macrantha Hook.f.
Nepenthes phyllamphora var. pediculata Lecomte
Nepenthes phyllamphora var. platyphylla Blume
Nepenthes tubulosa Macfarl.
Phyllamphora mirabilis Lour.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.